#Teenage mutant hero turtles series
#Teenage mutant hero turtles tv

I was a big enough fan of the show to have assorted TMHT merchandise, including some kind of illustrated story book and TMHT cutlery, though I might only remember the latter because it fork survived a decade longer in our house to be used for putting our catsвЂ™ food into their bowls. I donвЂ™t think I ever tried for my own home nunchaku but obviously I was totally unaware of them QED. The Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles that I watched on the BBC on Saturday mornings also had appearances of nunchaku removed, that weapon being considered more easily rigged up and imitated by impressionable children than big swords and not family-friendly enough. Yes, we are far enough away from ninjas that the word no longer even appears in the title, scrubbed out by the same kind of fear that saw the special edition of Last Ninja 2 helpfully banned from shops.

#Teenage mutant hero turtles tv

And, finally, Image Works (British, not to be confused with Sony Imageworks) converted the NES game to formats more popular in the UK, releasing them under the TV seriesвЂ™ British title Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles. This then got taken up by Konami (Japanese) and turned into a couple of video games for the Famicom/NES that were the first time the Turtles made it to Japan. Murakami-Wolf-Swenson (also American) changed the tone and emphasis of the comic for a massively popular, family-friendly, cartoon series. These were among the chief sources for a parody comic by Kevin Eastman and Peter Laird (American) called Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Manga including Kozure Okami, by Kazuo Koike and Goseki Kojima (Japanese) inspired (American) Frank MillerвЂ™s Ronin and stint on the comic Daredevil. Look at the number of steps it took to get here.

#Teenage mutant hero turtles series

The chart-topping Commodore 64 version of Teenage Mutant Hero Turtles is a contender for the apotheosis of the series of increasingly jpeg-artifacted screenshots that was the ninja trend in the UK. The proper modern description might be a screenshot of a screenshot of a repost of a meme. The idea of something that loses sharpness and detail as it gets replicated, and the replication gets replicated, is a useful one.

In the UK things sometimes have different names, and we just call them photocopiers.

The first time I read a piece of art being described as a Xerox of a Xerox of a Xerox I had to guess the meaning from context.